Brian Lowry

Although Arsenio Hall devoted his opening-night monologue to what he's been up to for the last 19 years, the announcer wasn't really joking by introducing the host as "back from...

The TV industry is "entering an age of disruption," NBC Broadcasting Chairman Ted Harbert said Tuesday, during a wide-ranging discussion about the state of the business as part of the...

Although it became fashionable during the TV critics tour to be wildly offended by "Dads," the exaggerated tumult the show engendered shouldn't eclipse its general badness, in the process squandering...

NBC has seemed a little too desperate to turn "The Million Second Quiz" into "an event," even marshaling the collective resources of Comcast behind it. Still, in terms of the...

In the small-victory department, the premiere of "Crossfire" didn't produce the kind of cross-talk squabbling apt to give "The Daily Show" fodder to tee off on the CNN revival --...

Actress Anna Gunn was recently moved to write a first-person account for the New York Times, expressing concern over the vitriol triggered by her "Breaking Bad" character, Skyler. If she...

The 12th anniversary of the Sept. 11 terror attacks is coming up -- which is a good enough reason to do a lot of TV specials commemorating those events. Not...

Discovery Channel is so all over the place these days -- oscillating between classy nature documentaries and demo-pandering reality shows like "Porter Ridge" -- one hesitates to quibble about the...

The 12th anniversary of the Sept. 11 terror attacks is coming up -- which is a good enough reason to do a lot of TV specials commemorating those events. Not...

Although Billie Jean King is described as the first "sports figure" to be featured on "American Masters," her cultural influence obviously goes well beyond lobs and volleys, as this crisp...